Artist-in-residence

The NTU CCA Singapore Residencies programme is an integral part of the NTU CCA Singapore’s mission as a research centre and hosts artists, curators, critics and scholars from Singapore and abroad. The studio-based Residencies programme is dedicated to facilitating the production of knowledge and research for and by established and emerging artists. It serves as a forum for cultural and artistic exchange in Southeast Asia, augmented with public events Residencies: Insights / Studio Sessions / OPEN series, ranging from open studio sessions, lectures, live performances, to special projects in The Lab, NTU CCA Singapore’s space for curatorial experimentation. The application for residency at NTU CCA Singapore is via nomination, please email NTUCCAresidencies@ntu.edu.sg for more information.

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Tamara Weber

Residency period

3 October – 2 December 2016

About

Tamara Weber (b.1976, United States) has worked since the mid-2000s in photography, film, conceptual, and performance art. Her sensibility is a continuing meditation on formal questions (light, space, figuration, portraiture, temporarily) and on the possibilities of collaboration across disciplines (architecture, visual art, writing, performance). Weber photographs and films figures and objects as either forms of sculpture or visual deconstruction. Weber takes the objects that she captures and continually re-works them or uses them in collaborative projects. Her visual work has been featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial in the film Good Stock on the Dimension Floor: An Opera, and the Jacob Lawrence Gallery Post-Speculation/wayblackmachine, as well as in museums and galleries internationally.

Focus

During her residency, Weber will be collaborating with Annie Seaton. Annie Seaton and Tamara Weber work together as Close Readings, a collaborative project of visually informed investigative research. Close Readings’ recent works explore selective multimedia deconstruction. Their process involves, first, making photographs—then turning those images into xeroxes (or) otherwise altering them. In Singapore and New York, they will be simultaneously and asynchronously researching in various media. Through a collaborative process of visual and text-based interaction, Annie and Tamara will create book-like objects that will serve as blueprints for further work.

Public programmes

Residencies OPEN offers a rare insight into the often introverted sphere of the artists’ studio. Through showcasing discussions, performances, research and works-in-progress, Residencies:OPEN profiles the diversity of contemporary art practice and the divergent ways artists conceive artwork with the studio as a constant space for experimentation and research.

Residencies OPEN offers a rare insight into the often introverted sphere of the artists’ studio. Through showcasing discussions, performances, research and works-in-progress, Residencies:OPEN profiles the diversity of contemporary art practice and the divergent ways artists conceive artwork with the studio as a constant space for experimentation and research.